SMS POETRY

2009 · Contests · Literature

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February 2, 2009 SMS Poetry (Contests - Writing)

SMS Poetry has one simple guideline: The entire poem must be short enough to fit into a single 160-character SMS.

This contest is now in its fifth year at the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival.

Theme

Murder

Deadline

Midnight (Indian Standard Time), 8th February, 2009

Rules and Conditions

Please re-read and edit your entry before you submit. If you discover an error only after you get your acknowledgement email, and then resubmit a corrected entry, Our contest engine may delete both entries as duplicates. If our screening jury finds almost identical entries that have slipped past the contest engine, they will delete both entries. Please also do not even think of emailing us and asking us to edit your entry in the contest database. We’ll just delete your entry and won’t tell you we’ve done so.

Please do not put any personally identifying information in the body of your entry. By this we mean no byline, signature, credit line, copyright notice or symbol. If you have filled out the fields for name, email address and phone number, never fear, your entry is linked to that data by the system. The body of your entry is all our jury will see, and all that they want to see. Entries that ignore this will be seen to be trying to influence the jury, and will be disqualified.

Different word processors frequently have different ways of counting words. If your word processor tells you you have X number of words, and our contest engine’s word count says you have exceeded X, we’re sorry, but our contest engine rules. Any emails to the contest organisers or contest admin complaining about this or asking that we change the way our word processor works or insisting that your entry be accepted despite it exceeding our word count will result in the instant deletion of all entries associated with your email address.

The contest is open to anyone, anywhere, with the exception of the jury and their immediate family members.
Note, however, that you must have a bank account and mailing address in India, or, if you win, be able to nominate someone in India to receive your prize.

Entries must fit into a standard single SMS (i.e., not more than 160 characters, including punctuation marks and spaces).

Entries must be in English, but “SMSese” is okay; in fact, it is encouraged. But B cre8iv. Dnt jst drp th vwls; thts shr lznss & cn mk yr pm wll ngh incmprhnsbl.

There is no restriction on poetic form. (If you can fit a sonnet into 160 characters, more power to you!)

Entries must be your own, original work, and previously unpublished anywhere, in print or online.
We interpret “published” to mean that there was some form of editorial or jury selection and/or payment involved. So work that appeared on a personal blog or unmoderated forum is okay, but something that won you a prize somewhere is not. Something that may have been selected to be printed in a newspaper is published, whether you got paid for it or not.

Multiple entries are permitted. Do not duplicate entries, however. We will delete all copies of your entry from the system if you flood it.

There is no entry fee.

Submissions remain the intellectual property of the entrants, but by submitting an entry, you give the the Kala Ghoda Association, the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival and its Sponsors, and Caferati permission to use your entry, with acknowledgement, but with no payment to you, in their websites, as part of Press Releases (where they may be reproduced by media organisations), and in a possible special booklet or CD featuring the best of the Festival.

The decisions of the jury are final and binding, and no correspondence will be entertained regarding the jury’s decisions.

Jury

Caferati’s editors will screen the initial entries to keep the long list to a reasonable number. In the second round of judging, they will be joined by:

Marilyn Noronha, born Bayros, schooled at Convent of Jesus and Mary, Clare Road, Byculla, Mumbai. She studied English Literature at St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai and later went on to teach, after obtaining a B.Ed. degree. She worked in a nationalized bank for twenty-three years. At present she is once again pursuing her first love, teaching Music and Creative Writing, at an IBO School in Mumbai.
A long standing member of the Poetry Circle of Mumbai, Marilyn has read her poetry at several forums. Her work has been published in various anthologies as well as national and international journals. Her first collection of poems, Different Faces, was published by Allied Publishers Private Limited, Mumbai, India in 2003.
Besides poems and short stories, Marilyn also writes plays and musicals for children. These have been performed by various schools, on stage, radio and television. Many of her short stories have been published in magazines and one story – Jyoti Means Light, was read on the BBC World Short Story Programme.

Menka Shivdasani is a founder member of the Poetry Circle, which began in Mumbai in 1986. Her first book of poems, Nirvana at Ten Rupees, was published by XAL-Praxis in 1990 and her second collection, Stet, appeared in 2001. Menka is also co-translator of Freedom and Fissures, an anthology of Sindhi Partition poetry, published by the Sahitya Akademi in 1998.
Her poems have appeared in several publications, including Poetry Review (London), Fulcrum (USA), Many Mountains Moving (USA), ARC (Canada), Literature Alive (New Writing from India and Britain) and Poetry Wales. Her work has also appeared in anthologies such as An Anthology of New Indian English Poetry (Rupa and Co.), Confronting Love (Penguin India), 60 Indian Poets (Penguin), Both Sides of the Sky (National Book Trust), and the Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets. Menka’s poems have been translated into Marathi, Malayalam and Gujarati.

Jane Bhandari, painter and poet, has lived in India for four decades. She is the author of two collections of poetry: Single Bed and Aquarius. She has also written two children’s books, The Round Square Chapatti and The Long Thin Jungle. A third collection of poems and a novel are in progress.

http://www.caferati.com/kgaf/2009/02/02/sms-poetry-contests-writing/

Prizes

Prizes worth approximately Rs 3000, Rs 2000, and Rs 1000 to be won.

Winners will be announced on the evening of 15th February, 2007, at the David Sassoon Library Garden.

Updates

All updates via the Caferati Contests newsgroup. Please make sure you’re subscribed.

How to enter

Go to the submission page and fill up the entry form.

Note that this is the only way to enter the contest. So please don’t ask us to consider entries by any other means.

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